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Rhythmbox 0.8.5
Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:51:54 -0400

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.5

• Metadata loading via Xine [Bastien Nocera]
• Don't crash on duplicate database entries [Colin Walters]
• Fix random crasher when using commandline args [Colin Walters]
• Fix small display, sourcelist, and browser keybindings to not conflict with HIG [Colin Walters]
• Actually include sk translation

New Translations

• is (Gunnar Steinn Magnússon)
• sk (Ivan Noris)

Updated translations

• az (Metin Amiroff)
• bg (Peter Slavov)
• el (Nikos Charonitakis)
• fi (Ilkka Tuohela)
• fr (Christophe Fergeau)
• it (Luca Ferretti)

Rhythmbox 0.8.4
Mon, 18 May 2004 15:40:20 -0400

Overview of changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.4

• Many memory leak during playback fixes [Colin Walters]
• Fix initial sorting [Colin Walters]
• Make size-limited automatic playlists work [Colin Walters]
• Make editing automatic playlists with size/count limits work [Colin Walters]
• Fix seeking on short tracks [Juergen Kreileder]
• Sync play/forward/back buttons after play order change [Colin Walters]
• Make supported media type tests dynamic, add audio/x-m4a if faad plugin is available [Colin Walters]
• Play even 0-rated songs sometimes in weighted random mode [Nils Philippsen]

New translations

• sk (Ivan Noris)

Updated translations

• et (Priit Laes)
• ca (Jordi Mallach)
• no (Kjartan Maraas)
• de (Christian Neumair)
• pt (Duarte Loreto)
• sv (Christian Rose)

Rhythmbox 0.8.3
Mon, 03 May 2004 19:48:30 -0400

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.3

• Revert change to use authentication callbacks, it broke too much [Colin Walters]
• Don't crash on gnome-panel restart [Bastien Nocera]
• Plug a memory leak [Colin Walters]

Updated translations

• et (Priit Laes)
• nl (Tino Meinen)

Rhythmbox 0.8.2
Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:52:34 -0400

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.2

• Fixed Rhythmbox GUI when using an RTL locale [Christophe Fergeau]
• Require GStreamer 0.8.1 [Colin Walters]
• Fix issue with previous button in playlists [Colin Walters]
• Allow playback of untagged mp3s [Benjamin Otte]
• Don't crash on passing directory on cmdline [Colin Walters]
• Convert more filenames to UTF-8 [Colin Walters]
• Show errors during initial import too [Colin Walters]
• Set up GnomeVFS authentication callbacks [Colin Walters]
• Avoid ReplayGain setup delay [Juergen Kreileder]
• Add DOCTYPE to docs [Mariano Suárez-Alvarez]
• Prevent crash when the GConf schema wasn't properly installed [Colin Walters]
• Make auto rating work much better [Jacques Fortier]
• Squash a major memory leak with size-limited automatic playlists [Colin Walters]
• Don't spew (harmless) warnings in small-mode playback [Colin Walters]

Updated translations

• ru (Russian team)

Rhythmbox 0.8.1
Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:08:10 -0500

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.1

• Really fix playlist saving [Colin Walters]
• Include completely untagged files too [Christophe Fergeau]
• Fix .applications file to handle any gnome-vfs location [Christophe Fergeau]
• Fix iPod compilation on big-endian machines [Christophe Fergeau]
• Find iradio-initial.pls correctly [Colin Walters]
• Fix a prototype [Ben Liblit]
• Make saving playlists dialog work with GTK+2.4 [Colin Walters]
• Squash a few small memleaks [Benjamin Otte]

Updated translations

• es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• pl (Artur Flinta)
• ja (Takeshi AIHANA)

Rhythmbox 0.8.0
Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:41:10 -0500

If I had to summarize the development since 0.6, I would say it's just like Rhythmbox, only better :) From stuff like Ogg support for internet radio, ReplayGain support, and automatic playlists based on rating, what we've done is just generally try to flesh everything out. We are also showcasing GStreamer's cool features like metadata reading.

However, we are set for some major changes in 0.9 (working to 1.0). File monitoring is already done, we have work going on for a SQLite backend, there's code to implement an Icecast source, and with software like HAL, the (still experimental) iPod support should start shaping up. And with luck we'll get metadata writing via GStreamer done :)

Here are the changes since 0.7.2:

• Fix playlist saving [Colin Walters]
• Memory leak fixes [Benjamin Otte]
• Ignore .Trash directories [Jonathan Blandford]
• Add audio/x-mod to known music types [Colin Walters]
• Several drag and drop fixes [Colin Walters]
• Fix usage of GtkFileSelection [Colin Walters]
• Revert back to using "Music Player" as Name [Colin Walters]
• Add code to guard against some GConf errors [Colin Walters]
• Display error on missing help files [Colin Walters]
• Some station properties dialog UI tweaks [Colin Walters]
• Remove quality column for now, it doesn't work [Colin Walters]
• Require GStreamer 0.8 [Colin Walters]
• Handle invalid UTF-8 when parsing playlists [Colin Walters]
• Fixes to bonobo interface [Colin Walters]
• Quote names with spaces for allmusic.com URIs [Colin Walters]
• Disable GTK+ sounds just for Rhythmbox [Miguel Coca]
• Better error message on missing plugin [Colin Walters]
• Fix GConf schema default for selected source [Colin Walters]
• A really major crasher bug fixed [Colin Walters]
• Allow player to release audio sink when GStreamer supports it [Benjamin Otte]
• Fix several crashers in multiple selection dialog [Colin Walters]

New translations:

• en_CA (Adam Weinberger)
• en_GB (David Lodge)
• pa (Punjab Linux Technology)

Updated translations:

• id (Mohammad DAMT)
• lt (Žygimantas Beručka)
• cs (Miloslav Trmac)
• ca (Jordi Mallach)
• pt_BR (Raphael Higino)
• es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
• sv (Christian Rose)
• pl (Artur Flinta)
• da (Ole Laursen)
• pt (Duarte Loreto)
• no (Kjartan Maraas)
• sr (Danilo Šegan)
• hr (Andras Timar)

Rhythmbox 0.7.2
Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:13:12 -0500

Here's a new version in the Rhythmbox development series. We're rapidly approaching 0.8.0. A lot of bugs have been fixed.

I'd like to take this space to explain what's going on with tag editing. The situation is that almost all the work that needs to be done for this inside Rhythmbox is already done. What needs to be done now is for the underlying media library like GStreamer or Xine to support it. GStreamer's actually getting pretty close, and you may even see it in the GStreamer 0.8.0 series.

• Many crasher bugfixes [Ben Liblit, Colin Walters]
• Initial work on saving database and playlists while running [David Dollar]
• Fix mime type detection [Colin Walters]
• Fix import of non-UTF8 filenames [Colin Walters]
• Actually respect Cancel in import dialog [Colin Walters]
• Several fixes for GTK+ 2.4 file dialogs [Colin Walters]
• Display buffering progress for Xine backend [David Dollar]
• iPod fixes [Christophe Fergeau]
• Remove deprecated casting usage [Christophe Fergeau]
• New --shuffle argument [James Willcox]
• Use automake 1.8 if available [Christian Schaller, Colin Walters]
• Fix for GTK+ 2.4 detection [Christophe Fergeau]
• Nicer iPod icon [Jakub Steiner]
• Actually distribute README.iPod [Colin Walters]
• Xine player fixes [David Dollar]
• Add MonkeysAudio to known music MIME types [Jérémy SIMON]
• Canonicalize filenames into URLS when loading playlists [Colin Walters]
• Fix race condition in database load [Colin Walters]
• Remove some unused functions [Bastien Nocera]

Updated translations:

• el (Kostas Papadimas)
• hu (Andras Timar)
• hr (Robert Sedak)
• tr (Enver Altin)
• ga (Alastair McKinstry)
• ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
• nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
• da (Morten Brix Pedersen)
• lt (Žygimantas Beručka)

Rhythmbox 0.6.10
Sun, 27 Mar 2004 13:22:31 -0500

Thanks to Ben Liblit and the Cooperative Bug Isolation Project , this version of Rhythmbox should be the most stable yet. If you've reported a crasher bug in Bugzilla , it would be nice if you could check whether or not this release fixes it.

• Fixes for several crashers [Ben Liblit, Colin Walters]
• Better GStreamer 0.8 compatibility [Colin Walters]
• GCC 2.x fixes [foser@gentoo.org]
• Fix flac configury [foser@gentoo.org]